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DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Publication: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1931, New York

First U. S. edition. Originally published earlier in the U. K. in 1931 using the title, THE FIVE RED HERRINGS. Some minor darkening to orange cloth at spine, but all lettering remains clear, else a crisp, near fine copy in dust jacket, with light professional restoration to the extremities. A landscape painter was found dead half submerged in a stream. On the bank was his easel and stool and a half-finished picture in which the paint was still wet. He had been seen sitting at his easel painting at ten o'clock in the morning and again at eleven, and when the body was found, it was only two o'clock in the afternoon. But ... rigor mortis had set in to prove that he had been dead for ten or twelve hours. Lord Peter Wimsey is called, and while red herrings and blind alleys abound, he weeds out the false evidence and leads the police directly to the murderer.

Inventory Number: 39994